Size Alteration (Su)

At will, a spriggan can grow from Small to Large size or back again. Weapons, armor, and other inanimate objects on its person grow proportionately with it when it changes size. This is similar to the enlarge person spell. An enlarged spriggan gains +12 Strength, –2 Dexterity, +6 Constitution, and a –2 to AC. While enlarged, a spriggan cannot use its spell-like abilities or its innate sneak attack ability (though any other sneak attack it may have, such as from rogue class levels, is unaffected when it changes size).

Spriggan (enlarged)

This loutish creature appears brutish even for a giant, with bulbous nose, scraggly hair and patchy beard. The smell emanating from it is no surprise considering the filth of itself and its clothing.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Size Alteration (Su)

At will, a spriggan can grow from Small to Large size or back again. Weapons, armor, and other inanimate objects on its person grow proportionately with it when it changes size. This is similar to the enlarge person spell. An enlarged spriggan gains +12 Strength, –2 Dexterity, +6 Constitution, and a –2 to AC. While enlarged, a spriggan cannot use its spell-like abilities or its innate sneak attack ability (though any other sneak attack it may have, such as from rogue class levels, is unaffected when it changes size).

ECOLOGY

Spriggan Characters

Spriggans have racial Hit Dice and can have class levels. Many spriggans with class levels choose rogue. Spriggan leaders are usually rogue/fighters or rogue/sorcerers. Spriggan characters possess the following racial traits:

–2 Strength, +8 Dexterity, +2 Constitution, –2 Charisma. Spriggans are extremely quick and elusive in their normal form but hardy as well.

Small size: Spriggans are Small and have the following adjustments +1 bonus to Armor Class, +1 bonus on attack rolls, +4 bonus on Stealth checks, –1 penalty to CMB/CMD, lifting and carrying limits 3/4 those of Medium characters.

Base speed: A spriggan’s base land speed is 20 feet.

Low-light vision: Spriggans can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.

Languages: Spriggans begin play speaking Gnome. Spriggans with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following languages: Common, Giant, Goblin, Orc.

Environment any land and undergroundOrganization solitary or mob (3–12)Treasure standard

Spriggans are among the ugliest and certainly the most foul tempered of all gnomes. At one moment a normal-sized gnome, a spriggan can grow to giant-sized in an instant, gaining immense strength and taking unsuspecting opponents by surprise.

Spriggans are, by human standards, quite homely. They have stocky bodies and sickly ochre-colored skin and dark hair of brown of black. Male spriggans favor facial hair such as shaggy mustaches and ratty beards, but any head or facial hair they have is unkempt and filthy. Female spriggans do not have facial hair. Being unhygienic creatures, spriggans never bathe or clean their clothing or equipment. Thanks to their filthy lifestyle, spriggans reek with the foulness of dirt, body odor, and other unpleasantness. Despite being gnomes themselves, spriggans despise all of their gnomish kinfolk.

Spriggans make the best use of their magical abilities in combat. When several spriggans are encountered, some will enlarge themselves at the first sign of melee, while the remainder will stay Small and take advantage of their innate abilities of stealth and sneak attacks. Owing to their chaotic nature, complex battle plans are generally beyond most spriggan mobs; it is likely that some, none, or all spriggans in a mob will change size at the start of melee.

Spriggan Society

Spriggan mobs are almost always comprised of males; female spriggans rarely venture out of their dismal lairs other than to gather food. Mobs of spriggan males are nomadic in nature, roving from place to place and never settling down for more than a few days unless there is promising a opportunity for rewarding raids on local communities. Female spriggan mobs are unusually stable for such chaotic creatures, often lairing in the same place for years before moving on.

Section 15: Copyright Notice – Tome of Horrors Complete

Spriggan from the
Tome of Horrors Complete, Copyright 2011, Necromancer Games, Inc., published and distributed by Frog God Games; Authors Scott Greene and Erica Balsley, based on original material by Roger Moore and Gary Gygax.